Many of the open-source Kinect hacks we’ve seen emerge so far have been only artistic-looking, but admittedly impressive, graphics rendered of images captured by the motion-sensing camera. Now, a group of MIT students known as The Fluid Interfaces Group have hacked the technology to create a gesture-based way to browse the web.
While it may seem like a simple thing, The Fluid Interfaces group sees plenty of future potential in their creation.
This is definitely one of the more useful ways I’ve seen the Kinect hacked for so far. What would be interesting to see is a Kinect 2.0 with a finer resolution camera that could detect finger motions to allow for finer control of gesture-based applications such as this.